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"The online music press has been heaping a staggering amount of adoration upon Chromatics’ fourth release, Kill for Love. For the most part this obscene reverence has heightened the album to best of 2012 buzz, but some reviews, such as one appearing on British music site Drowned in Sound, have touted Kill for Love’s first few tracks as some of the most perfect, pristine snatches of sound one will ever hear, EVER. A review on the same site of Beach House’s recent release Bloom wrote off that album as being perfect for one thing: background noise. Reading these reviews made me wonder if there had been some sort of mix up at Drowned in Sound, because the former album could easily be viewed in the same manner as the latter, and the latter could be praised to high heaven in the same way as the former.Drumless, a version of Kill for Love with all drum sounds omitted, further makes this case."

If DiS was just my opinion this is fairly consistent. I refuse to think of Beach House in terms other than them being some art-joke sponsored by Urban Outfitters...just seems like a hollow pose and an exercise in sucking the life out of music and seeing how long a song can plod along for. Never been more bored than when watching BH open for Cat Power and Grizzly Bear.